We must not hope to be mowers,
And to gather the ripe golden ears,
Unless we have first been sowers
And watered the furrows with tears.

It is not just as we take it,
This mystical world of ours,
Life’s field will yield as we make it
A harvest of thorns or of flowers.

– Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

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英倫翻譯 圖文轉自:  http://www.dailyenglishquote.com/2013/05/as-a-man-soweth/

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